Comments on: Career in Blogging

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 06:14:15 +0000

That’s right. Learn to write well and consistently. I try to keep readers coming back with relevant but light-hearted tech discussions.

Some people do it the easy way, by scraping content off other sites (i.e. without permission from the authors). But I’m not for this kind of activity.

Use your creativity and imagination.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:21:45 +0000

thanks for all advice.

marc, thanks for the seo invite and approval.

By: yuga

yuga — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:21:55 +0000

I guess Mr. Macalua here has influenced me a lot in terms of respecting the search engines’ raw power. So join us in SEO Philippines.

By: Teknolohiya

Teknolohiya — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:07:26 +0000

*content will make people KEEP coming back

By: Teknolohiya

Teknolohiya — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:03:33 +0000

To add to what Mr. Racoma said, increase traffic by not only making your blog look pretty – actually GIVE something back to your readers. The best blogs out there not only abound in DECENT content, they also do it CONSISTENTLY.

Learn to write, and learn to do it well. No one’s going to take you seriously if your writing is full of spelling and grammatical errors. Once you get that down, learn how to write consistently, and make sure you’re actually hitting your target audience. Just putting ads on your site hoping people will click them is just plain stupid.

The content will make the people come. The content will drive AdSense. The content will make people coming back, increasing your traffic and your chances that they’ll find something interesting in your ads.

The bottom line is, the ads should be second priority. If people find what you’re blogging about interesting, then let the process happen by itself. Blogging purely to profit will not only degrade the quality of your work, but also weed out the posers from those who actually have something decent to say.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:42:16 +0000

Hey Richard join the (shameless self plug) SEO Philippines mailing list. AdSense and other site monetization avenues are frequent discussion topics. Follow the link to my blog.

By: Andre

Andre — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:15:16 +0000

adsense leader board at top of the page
skyscraper in left column
ad link unit below leaderboard
then the trick is blend it all in so it looks exactly like your website

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:06:43 +0000

Richard, I have three tips:

Increase traffic
Increase traffic
Increase traffic

And of course, there’s ad placement and layout/color scheme.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:09:42 +0000

Guys, any tips in Adsense? Been adding google’s ads for quite some time now but I’ve got a measly 3-digit figure: 0.XX

By: yuga

yuga — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:29:14 +0000

5-figure per month is a lot! hehehe That’s more than half a million pesos!